I remember a year or so ago I had asked for any ksock fic and someone pointed out an oprhan_account link, which I immediately snagged, but then another comment came up, that I think was ksock, keeping track of things saying, did you post this without the authors permission? Which sent a chill through my spine and then the post was taken down on AO3, so they must have been a third party.That's bad, especially when their LJ is still up for people (isn't it?).

Yes, her LJ's still up, headed with that memorial status tag. I can't imagine who would do this without permission. Of course it's tempting to share such good writing, but it seems wrong to me. That's something that in the old days I would have said should be discussed in the SpN community, but now I feel like we're so thinly-spread there's no way. I guess stuff like this will pop up more frequently as fandom runs down and manners and etiquette changes.

Do we know it's been put up by someone randomly? Maybe it's up via family or some such? Like 'preserve these works for me' and they just haven't had time until now? I dunno.

I'm....wishy washy on stuff like that. You put stuff up on the internet, and people like it or love it or whatever, and it's kinda....out there. I don't really get all the 'omg, you don't have permission to share this with a fan who is desperate to re-read this thing i deleted ten years ago!!!'

It just seems weird to me. I mean - don't claim it as *your* work, or change it, but sharing... that's what people do. Share books, share magazines, share movies..... I dunno.

I think what bothers me is that the journal is there, in memorial status, so likely it's not going anywhere. It also seems odd to me to post without giving the readers a heads up as to why it's being posted. Why post as an orphan account? Why not a note letting people know why there will be no replies to comments or asks for continuation? I get that it's lovely to be able to download the story--love that feature so much--but folks downloading it have no idea who wrote the story, and okay, she doesn't care, but I do--she was such a good writer and deserves the credit.

You put stuff up on the internet, and people like it or love it or whatever, and it's kinda....out there.

Yeah, sure, it's public, that's the story. That's why I don't feel any kind of conflict when I'm asking if her stuff should be posted at AO3 that way, yet turn around and go to her LJ and copy-paste stuff. But I include her headers and think of that as respecting her authorship. I guess I just felt kind of emotionally involved about it, and hated that her stuff wouldn't be recognized as *hers*.